On Dec 10, 2007, at 2:14 AM, Reyk Floeter wrote:
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 08:27:33PM -0800, Ray Percival wrote:
X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (3B48b)
Fancy X-Mailer, but isn't non-free and full of patents ;)?
Yes, it is. Very much so. Also means I don't have to get off the
couch when I want to send a quick missive while watching Family Guy.
RMS would think I'm a very very bad man. But my personal tradeoff for
when non-free is OK does, in point of fact, sit a bit towards the non-
free side of his. But I've always been a heretic and always will.
So, what Stallman seems to be saying is that preventing users from
running the software they choose is more important than respecting
patents.
Slavery is freedom.
And the fact is that OpenBSD does not include any non-free software,
unlike all the Linuxes and other BSDs with binary blobs, evil
licenses, and non-free stuff in the base system.
Which is why the jokes about him saying that OpenBSD isn't free
enough or whatever write themselves. Irony is delicious. But dead
horses and flogs are no fun and I should have kept my big mouth shut.
reyk
